What does 1 Corinthians 6:16 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh."
Verse 1 Corinthians 6:16. _HE THAT IS JOINED TO A HARLOT IS ONE BODY_] In _Sohar_ _Genes_., fol. 19, we have these remarkable words: _Whosoever_ _connects himself with another man's wife, does in effe...
KNOW YE NOT ... - This is the third argument against licentiousness. It is, that we as Christians are united to Christ (compare the notes at John 15:1 ff); and that it is abominable to take the member...
CHAPTER 6 __ 1. Concerning Disputes before Heathen Courts. (1 Corinthians 6:1). 2. The Holiness of Believers; Their Bodies the Temples of the Holy Spirit. (1 Corinthians 6:8). Instead of settling t...
IMPURITY IS NO TRUE EXPRESSION OF CHRISTIAN FREEDOM, BUT INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE BELIEVER'S UNION WITH CHRIST. The special case of incest and the warnings against impurity in the last section (1 Corinth...
THE FOLLY OF THE LAW COURTS (1 Corinthians 6:1-8)...
WHAT?. Greek. JOINED. Greek. _kollao._ See Luke 15:15. FOR TWO, &C. The quotation is from Genesis 2:24 (Septuagint) ONE. into (Greek. _eis_. App-104.) one. Compare Matthew 19:5, where the same idio...
The guilt of the Fornicator 12. _All things are lawful unto me_ In this and the next two verses the main argument of the rest of the Epistle is sketched out, though not in the order afterwards followe...
THE GUILT OF THE FORNICATOR In this and the next two verses the main argument of the rest of the Epistle is sketched out, though not in the order afterwards followed by the Apostle. At present he take...
_CHRISTIANS ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS 6:15-20:_ God has purchased Christians with the precious blood of Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 1:18-19) We have been bought with blood, therefore we belong t...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Defilers Are Not Brothers (1 Corinthians 6:12-20) 12 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be enslave...
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. Fornicators are "members of an harlot" (1 Corinthians 6:15). JOINED - by carnal, sexual...
1 It is unfortunate that our word "judge" usually takes on the sense of condemnation. The saints are not to condemn the world but to rule it during the eons. Saints in Israel will possess the kingdom...
6:16 flesh. (a-24) Lit. 'to ( _ eis_ ) one flesh.' In English 'shall' or 'shall become' is the nearest in sense. It corresponds to the Hebrew of Genesis 2:24 . _ Eis_ is left out when he says 'one Spi...
_(C) 6:1-11. CHRISTIANS AND LITIGATION_ St. Paul reproves the Corinthians for referring their disputes about ordinary affairs to heathen judges. The subject was suggested by rumours he had heard; and...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 6 CHRISTIANS AND THE LAW COURTS 6:1-8 V1 Suppose that one of you has a reason to complain against another Christian. You may take your pro...
WHAT? — As if some one might question and resent the strength of the previous words, and wish them “watered down.” “Do you not know that my strong assertion is true? It is not merely my statement; it...
CHAPTER 10 FORNICATION IN remonstrating with the Corinthians for their litigiousness, Paul was forcibly reminded how imperfectly his converts understood the moral requirements of the kingdom of God....
§ 19. THE SANCTITY OF THE BODY, The laxity of morals distinguishing the Cor [964] Church was in some instances defended, or half-excused, by appealing to the principle of _Christian liberty_, which P....
KEEPING THE BODY HOLY 1 Corinthians 6:12 It is interesting to compare 1 Corinthians 6:12 with 1 Corinthians 10:23. There are four clauses in each verse, three of which are similar, but the last ones...
The apostle now passed to another dereliction. Disputes in the church were being submitted to heathen tribunals. What these matters were we are not told. The teaching of the apostle is clear, and has...
Christians Are A Part of Christ's Body Christians are free to do anything that is not sinful. The Corinthians had misapplied their freedom to sinful activities. As God's inspired spokesman, Paul said...
(12) What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for (i) two, saith he, shall be one flesh. (12) A proof of the same argument: a harlot and Christ are completely contrary, so...
IV. IMPURITY. 6:12-20. It has sometimes been imagined that the apostle was here resuming the subject of chap. 5, from which he had allowed himself to be diverted by the question of lawsuits. But we ha...
(15) Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid. (16) What? know ye not that he which is joined...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
16._Know ye not that he that is joined to an harlot _He brings out more fully the greatness of the injury that is done to Christ by the man that has intercourse with an harlot; for he becomes _one bod...
1 Corinthians 6:1-11 treats the subject of wrongs. It was shameful that those who were to judge the world and the angels should be incapable of judging the paltry affairs of this world. Let the least...
WHAT? KNOW YE NOT THAT HE WHICH IS JOINED TO AN HARLOT,.... Not in marriage, but in carnal copulation, and unclean embraces, is one body with her FOR TWO ("saith he", Adam, or Moses, or God, or the S...
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. Ver. 16. _Is one body_] By a most strict but vicious and infamous bond (saith an interpreter...
_Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ_ Mystically united to him, as well as your souls, if you are his true disciples, as you profess to be. _Shall I then take the members of Christ_...
An earnest warning against immorality:...
In this chapter there is another matter raised in which the Corinthians had not been using proper judgment. No individual is singled out here, but the strong reproof of the apostle is for any who had...
OR KNOW YE NOT THAT HE THAT IS JOINED TO. HARLOT IS ONE BODY? FOR, THE TWAIN, SAITH HE, SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH. 'is one body' -'the fornicative act makes one single body of the two' (Lenski p. 263)...
12-20 Some among the Corinthians seem to have been ready to say, All things are lawful for me. This dangerous conceit St. Paul opposes. There is a liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, in which...
The conjunction of the husband and wife, mentioned GENESIS 2:24, and the conjunction of the fornicator and the harlot, differ not as to the species of the act, only as to the morality of it; the forme...
Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? [as if in Satanic marriage] _for, The twain, saith he_ [Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5; Ephesians 5:31], _shall become one flesh_....
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Et quod matrimonium non dicat fomicationem, ostendit eo, quod subiungit: "An nescitis, quod qui adhaeret meretrici, unum est corpus? "[224]...
1 Corinthians 6:16 Or G2228 not G3756 know G1492 (G5758) that G3754 joined G2853 (G5746) harlot G4204 is G2076 (G5748) one G1520 body G4983 For G1063 two G1417 says G5346 (G5748) become G2071 (G5704)...
‘Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ. Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it not be. Or do you not know that he who is joined in...
From wrong-doing in one particular the apostle is now led to speak of wrong-doing in its widest sense, but emphatically of that form of it already dealt with in part....
ONE BODY (εν σωμα). With the harlot. That union is for the harlot the same as with the wife. The words quoted from Genesis 2:24 describing the sexual union of husband and wife, are also quoted and...
CONTENTS: Saints forbidden to go to law with each other. Sanctity of the body. The body the Lord's temple. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit. CONCLUSION: Contention of Christians before the law i...
1 Corinthians 6:1. _Dare any of you go to law before the unjust?_ He whose cause is just appeals to equity, but he who does his neighbour wrong is vexatious. In England, our judges, after the cause is...
THE TWO WILL BECOME ONE BODY. Paul quotes Genesis 2:24 to prove that the man and the prostitute become physically one in the sex act. [This does not mean that the man and the prostitute are now marrie...
_All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient._ THE LAWFUL AND THE EXPEDIENT I. What is lawful for us in life? All things indifferent, _i.e._, not evil in themselves. The Christian...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 6:12 Some Corinthian Christians were engaging in sex with prostitutes. Paul reminds them that the bodies of Christians are one with the resurrected Christ and that,...
CHAPTER 6 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. The Apostle passes on to the subject of lawsuits and trials, and reproves the Corinthians for instituting proceedings before the heathen judges, and he declares...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ SECOND MAIN TOPIC.— 1 Corinthians 6:12 1 Corinthians 6:12. LAWFUL.—Here, and in 1 Corinthians 10:23. To be put in quotation marks, “All … lawful.” His own words, or something like th...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 6:1 _Litigation before heathen courts forbidden._ 1 CORINTHIANS 6:1 DARE ANY OF YOU? rather, _Dare any one of you? _It is in St. Paul's view an _audacious _defiance of Chr...
Now Paul brings up another issue, and that was the taking of a brother before the pagan courts. Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saint...
Ephesians 5:31; Genesis 2:24; Genesis 34:31; Genesis 38:15; Genesis 38:24; Hebrews 11:31; Judges 16:1; Mark 10:8; Matthew 19:5; Matthew 19:6;...
He that is joined [ο κ ο λ λ ω μ ε ν ο ς]. See on Luke 14:15. Compare Aeschylus : "The family has been glued [κ ε κ ο λ λ η τ α ι] to misfortune" (" Agamemnon, " 1543). The verb is used Genesis 2:24,...
THE INDWELLING HOLY SPIRIT 1 Corinthians 6:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The studies in the Epistle to the Corinthians are not written to be shelved, but to be carefully studied, and followed, lest we fall,...
Genesis 2:24....
The sense is, "That as wedlock makes man and wife one body lawfully, so fornication makes the man and the harlot one body sinfully; all the difference is in the morality of the act, but the species or...